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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-3 and 5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by He (US 2008/0284661, cited by the applicant).
Re claim 1: He teaches an antenna device (100) comprising an antenna plate (110), a ground plate (130) supporting the antenna plate, and an impedance matching circuit for impedance matching of the antenna device (paragraph 0036), wherein an area of an upper surface of the antenna plate is formed at a predesignated ratio according to a resonant frequency for communication (paragraph 0034), and the impedance matching of the antenna device is adjusted based on a distance between a feeding line (116) and a ground line (118) connected to the antenna plate (110)(paragraph 0032)(see figs. 1-2B; paragraphs 0024-0037).
Re claim 2: Wherein the antenna plate (110) is grounded to the ground plate (130)(fig. 1).
Re claim 3: The antenna device further comprising a communication circuit configured to determine whether communication is possible by analyzing signals transmitted and received through the antenna plate (i.e., the antenna can be applied to cellular phone bands, paragraph 0053).
Re claim 5: A wireless communication device (e.g., a SOHO repeater and cellular phones) comprising the antenna device of claim 1, the wireless communication device implicitly comprises a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the antenna device (100), and a communication module configured to transmit the signals processed by the processor to a communication terminal device (paragraph 53).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over He in view of Horisawa et al. (US 2012/0176275, cited by the applicant).
The teachings of He have been discussed above.
Although, He teaches the wireless communication device such as a cellular phone comprising communication circuit for transmit/receive wireless signals using antenna device, he fairly suggests that the communication circuit identifies a bit error rate.
Horisawa teaches a wireless communication apparatus in compliance with IEEE802.15.4, IEEE802.11 for transmitting/receiving radio signals (see paragraphs 0002, 0003).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention was made to incorporate the teachings of Horisawa to the teachings of He in order to provide wireless communication conforming the wireless communication standard such as IEEE802.15.4, IEEE802.11, and etc. In fact, it is well-known in the art that the Bit Error Rate (BER) of the IEEE802.11 is required to be below the specific threshold value for data transmission, and therefore an obvious expedient.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Iguchi et al. (US 7151492) teaches an antenna for wireless device.
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/SEUNG H LEE/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2876
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